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front row left to right: N. Carroll, J. Díaz, R. Blau, S. Hahn, D. Canedy, G. Collins, N. Barnes; back row left to right: J. Daniszewski, N. Brown, E. Alexander, K. Boo, E. Robinson, E. Ramshaw, A. Marqués, S. Engelberg, T. Shelby (absent: L. Bollinger, S. Coll) (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)

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Robert Blau and Steven Hahn, co-chairs; Dana Canedy, administrator

Staff of The Wall Street Journal

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For uncovering President Trump’s secret payoffs to two women during his campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him, and the web of supporters who facilitated the transactions, triggering criminal inquiries and calls for impeachment.
Tags: 2019
Categories: National Reporting

Darrin Bell, freelancer

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For beautiful and daring editorial cartoons that took on issues affecting disenfranchised communities, calling out lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration.
Tags: 2019
Categories: Editorial Cartooning

Ellen Reid

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A bold new operatic work that uses sophisticated vocal writing and striking instrumental timbres to confront difficult subject matter: the effects of sexual and emotional abuse. Libretto by Roxie Perkins. Prism was commissioned and produced by Beth Morrison Projects in association with Trinity Wall Street, presented in a rolling world premiere with LA Opera and the PROTOTYPE Festival.
Tags: 2019
Categories: Music
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p r i s m

Andrew Norman

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Sustain
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Premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, an absorbing orchestral work rich with mesmerizing textures and color, including washes of clustered string sounds and cascading winds, creating a virtual sound installation in which perceptions of time are suspended (Schott Music).
Tags: 2019
Categories: Music

James Romig

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Still
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Released by New World Records, a hypnotic solo-piano work comprised of 43 individual sections whose striking harmonic implications and subtly dramatic effects distill music to its barest essences.
Tags: 2019
Categories: Music

Clare Barron

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Dance Nation
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A refreshingly unorthodox play that conveys the joy and abandon of dancing, while addressing the changes to body and mind of its preteen characters as they peer over the precipice toward adulthood.
Tags: 2019
Categories: Drama